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Text:Alas! what hourly dangers rise
Tune:MARTYRDOM

138b. Alas! what hourly dangers rise

1 Alas! what hourly dangers rise,
What snares beset my way!
To heav'n, oh, let me lift mine eyes,
And hourly watch and pray.

2 How oft my mournful thoughts complain,
And melt in flowing tears!
My weak resistance,--ah, how vain!
How strong my foes and fears!

3 O Lord, increase my faith and hope,
When foes and fears prevail,
And bear my fainting spirit up,
Or soon my strength will fail.

4 Oh, keep me in thy heavenly way,
And bid the tempter flee;
And let me never, never stray
From happiness and thee.

Text Information
First Line: Alas! what hourly dangers rise
Publication Date: 1870
Notes: Tune for 25, 197, 209, and 259 in "American Sunday School Hymn Book" (ASS1860a)
Tune Information
Name: MARTYRDOM
Meter: C. M.
Key: A Major
Source: Scottish



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